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General / Re: Help : Mame, can't start games in Attract Mode

« on: July 13, 2020, 11:43:43 AM »

It WORKS ! Yay

Setting up the inipath in AM was not enough though.

AM needs to be run in Admin mode (Right click, properties, Run as admin), even when logged in to windows with an admin account.

I'm all good now, thanks a lot for the help, I'm really happy you helped me sorting it out.

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General / Re: Help : Mame, can't start games in Attract Mode

« on: July 12, 2020, 07:47:20 PM »

It worked from the command line.

I put the same line (without the rom name) in AM, and I get the error files not found.

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General / Re: Help : Mame, can't start games in Attract Mode

« on: July 12, 2020, 06:30:15 PM »

No luck, I still get the same error in AM, it's going with the other mame.ini file that doesn't exist.

I don't understand how this works, is there a default folder that AM runs the mame command line from ? That's probably where I should put my mame.ini file but I don't know how to find that location.

Any idea ?

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General / Re: Help : Mame, can't start games in Attract Mode

« on: July 12, 2020, 01:28:13 PM »

Ok some progress here, I made a copy of my mame.ini file and put it in c:\users\me, which is the default folder my command line starts from, and the command line works.

I'm going to install AM now and try, while crossing fingers, that this sorts it all out

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General / Re: Help : Mame, can't start games in Attract Mode

« on: July 12, 2020, 01:16:47 PM »

I have a half a mind to say delete your mame ini and AM and start fresh....

this is too weird 

That's exactly what I started doing. I deleted everything and I'm starting from scratch.

I'm not even installing AM for now, I'm just trying to get the Mame command line to work from outside the D:\mame folder.
I set the inipath in Mame.ini to where the ini file is, but Mame doesn't look there. Using the -sc command, it pulls an .ini file that doesn't have the rompath and inipath I set, and since I only have one mane.ini file, I can"t figure where he pulls  that other .ini file from.

Next attempt is to put my good mame.ini file in the directory where the command line starts from, I'm going totally blind there.

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General / Re: Help : Mame, can't start games in Attract Mode

« on: July 12, 2020, 12:39:29 AM »

I tried both, I get the same error.

For info, I've put the AM folder in the Mame folder.

Should I try to put the content of the AM folder in the Mame folder ? I'm wondering if it would get it to start from the d:\mame where I manage to get the command line to work

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General / Re: Help : Mame, can't start games in Attract Mode

« on: July 11, 2020, 09:46:46 PM »

It works, the game loads

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General / Re: Help : Mame, can't start games in Attract Mode

« on: July 11, 2020, 09:36:12 PM »

Try this on the command line without being inside your mame folder.

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D:\Mame\Mame64.exe -rompath D:\Mame\roms\Mainlist toki


I get "Error opening translation file English"

Then the game launches properly

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General / Re: Help : Mame, can't start games in Attract Mode

« on: July 11, 2020, 09:22:28 PM »

Are you sure you don't have more than one mame.ini?

From the command line try these and see what the rompath shows for each.

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D:\Mame\Mame64.exe -sc | more


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d:
cd Mame
Mame64.exe -sc | more


Bingo ! You are right.

The first one shows
ROMPATH     Roms

The second one shows my actual rom path (d:\mame\roms....)

When I search for mame.ini there is only one file that shows up though, the one with the correct rompath.

How can I find the second one ?

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General / Re: Help : Mame, can't start games in Attract Mode

« on: July 11, 2020, 07:28:19 PM »

I added in working directory D:\Mame

But same error.

When opening last run log in AM the working directory shows like this though

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D:\Mame/
Which I find strange

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General / Re: Help : Mame, can't start games in Attract Mode

« on: July 11, 2020, 06:45:30 PM »

I made a (small) progress after searching online.

In command line, if I start by going to my mame folder
d:\mame

Then type mame64.exe toki

The game launches properly.

I don't know what to do next though, thanks for the help

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General / Re: Help : Mame, can't start games in Attract Mode

« on: July 11, 2020, 05:47:11 PM »

I changed the rompath, removed the " " and tried again, I'm still getting the same error, exact same as the one I posted above. I also checked that my rompath was right.

I use groovymame 0.221 with the corresponding romset. I use the merged set. Also I don't know if it helps but I checked in the rom and the files that are listed missing are present in the rom.

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General / Re: Help : Mame, can't start games in Attract Mode

« on: July 11, 2020, 11:12:53 AM »

Hi and thanks for your help. Here is what I get from the command (sorry it's a screenshot attached, I couldn't find the log file)
The game launches well from Mame64 UI, I have the same problem with all the games

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General / [Solved] Mame, can't start games in Attract Mode

« on: July 10, 2020, 04:19:39 PM »

Hi everyone,
I have just finished setting up attract mode, but I can't get it to launch games. Games launch well from Mame UI. My plan is to create multiple mame lists and put different roms in there (Shmup, beat etc...) but for now I'm just putting one list to test and that one doesn't work.
Any help is appreciated, I feel I've set it up right but obviously didn't !

Thank you

Here is the error log

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Attract-Mode v2.6.1 (Windows, SFML 2.5.1 +SWF +7z +Curl)
avcodec 58.54.100 / avformat 58.29.100 / swscale 5.5.100 / avutil 56.31.100 / swresample 3.5.100

Config: D:\Mame\Attract Mode\attract.cfg

*** Initializing display: 'Main List'
 - Loaded master romlist 'Main List' in 2 ms (213 entries kept, 0 discarded)
 - Constructed 2 filters in 0 ms (426 comparisons)
 - Loaded layout: D:\Mame\Attract Mode\layouts/Attrac-Man/ (layout.nut)
 - Working directory: D:\Mame
*** Running: D:\Mame\Mame64.exe toki
Error executing command: 'D:\Mame\Mame64.exe toki'

And my Attract mode config file

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# Generated by Attract-Mode v2.6.1
#
executable           D:\Mame\Mame64.exe
args                 [name]
rompath              D:\Mame\Roms\Mainlist
romext               .zip;.7z
system               Arcade
info_source          listxml
exit_hotkey          Escape
pause_hotkey         Num1+Down
artwork    marquee         $HOME/Mame/Marquee
artwork    snap            $HOME/mame/video;$HOME/mame/snap
And my Mame config for the rompath

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# CORE SEARCH PATH OPTIONS
#
homepath                  .
rompath                   "roms;D:\Mame\roms\Mainlist"
hashpath                  hash
samplepath                samples
artpath                   artwork
ctrlrpath                 ctrlr
inipath                   .;ini;ini/presets
fontpath                  .
cheatpath                 cheat
crosshairpath             crosshair
pluginspath               plugins
languagepath              language
swpath                    software